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- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Jerry Shafir: A Simmering Success Story
managing a smooth launch of Kettle Cuisine's retail product, and cultivating brand identity are his immediate priorities. While Shafir no longer goes to the fish pier every morning, he is usually at work by seven and rarely makes it home for dinner. Still, he jealously... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
both have enjoyed the flexibility to raise our two sons, from coaching soccer to building haunted houses for Halloween to inviting the boys and their friends to be interns at the company. Now our eldest son serves as VP of sales and will... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Team MBA
lacrosse season as a coach at Brookline High School, traveling, then back to the working world with a position in private equity. That’s a nice benefit. What else was valuable about the learning team experience? Courtney Hughes: The... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2019
financial guts of the business world when I was a teenager.” Big fail: Missing the cut for the high school volleyball team. “I asked the coach what I needed to do to make the team the next year. She told me, and I ended up being captain... View Details
- 29 Apr 2025
- News
Challenge Accepted
seed capital and piloted MLT’s initial programming. Over the past 20 years, MLT has provided professional coaching and a high-performance playbook to 15,000 individuals and developed over 1,000 senior executive leaders across the private... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Made in the USA
companies that are case studies in surmounting competitive threats and fostering community pride. Jim Knott Sr. (OPM 17, 1991) relishes a good fight. During his first prep school wrestling practice, his coach put the inexperienced... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Seth Klarman
all-consuming. He makes time for family and outside pursuits. As his three children grew, he coached his daughters’ soccer teams and attended his son’s recitals. And he is deeply committed to a number of philanthropic causes. Klarman... View Details
- 16 Nov 2017
- News
The Business of Social Justice
(formerly known as the Crittenton Women’s Union), a Boston-based nonprofit that helps people move out of poverty and also licenses its coaching tools to other organizations across the country. “It was a challenging hike, and we got really... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
executive coach and speaker Matt Spielman guides readers through straightforward questions designed to reorient your perspective and refocus your efforts on realizing happiness and fulfilment in life. You will also learn to create a... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
September 2021 Alumni Books
Job, Staying True to Yourself, and Raising Happy Kids By Daisy Dowling (MBA 2002) Harvard Business Review Press Sure, there are plenty of parenting books out there. But as working moms and dads, we’ve never had a trusted, go-to guide all our own—one that View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
serving as a volunteer football coach at Western Maryland College, a student complained to him that there were "no opportunities left in America." A survivor of childhood poverty who became a millionaire by age 35 through nursing-home and... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
View from the Top
achieve the desired results. Wagoner: Leaders must know and stay on top of their business, and they must be proactive in driving for results. Good leaders don't wait for issues to arise, they anticipate them. They help solve problems. They listen to people and View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The House that Howard Built
exposure to the extent possible by leveraging existing assets...and then go for it. In other words, much of the process — recognizing opportunity and marshaling ways to respond to it — could be taught to anyone. “Practicing with a coach... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Homeschooled
technology that offers personalized instruction, is what I hope will come out of this. Do you see online learning dominating the education sector 10 to 20 years from now, or will there be a more blended approach given that socialization and View Details
- 05 May 2022
- News
Lesson Plans
student, that has game mechanics. We’re also started a new not-for-profit called schoolhouse.world, which is about how can you get free coaching and tutoring. We’re just trying to fill in all the gaps of what would a real free world-class... View Details
- 29 Aug 2018
- News
The Value of Valleys
think there was real opportunity to have done it and to have done it better. Certainly the most immediate way I think it's shaped me is in terms of how I coach my team. Right? I think about their career moves very comprehensively versus... View Details
- 20 Jul 2022
- News
Wired to be Inspired
work. I hadn’t thought about that. And I saw this in a pretty vivid way, actually first at the Seattle Seahawks, the football team in Seattle, with Coach Pete Carroll talking about it and trying to get employees to think about their... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019
mobility, retail, entertainment, nonprofit, and education, Connected Strategy identifies the four pathways—respond-to-desire, curated offering, coach behavior, and automatic execution—for turning episodic interactions into continuous... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
presented in mid-May 1995 to 650 students and some 70 faculty members and administrators by students coached in case-method teaching. "Using the tools we've learned at HBS, it served as a catalyst for the SA to solicit direction, ideas,... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
DO (work to remain relevant), GO (travel), and HA (laugh) which inspired and guided her venture. Vitality Society quickly attracted nearly 2,000 members who are taking advantage of live Zoom fitness, wellness, and enrichment classes. In many cases, Oppenheim even hired... View Details